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Damage Resistance?

post #1 of 26
12/22/02 at 9:53pm
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Because I'm an accident-prone kind of guy, I'd like to know how resistant to damage Sagers are.

Could it be dropped from a normal height (say, 4-5 ft) and survive the fall?

How about a spill on the keyboard, say 8 oz of orange juice?

Unless this stuff has been tested...don't test.
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post #2 of 26
12/22/02 at 11:49pm
lol well i cant comment on either because there would be no way id ever even think about doing either. BUT, if you were to spill a lot on the keyboard, i would assume it would leak through. I have taken the keyboard off and i assume that it would get through.
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post #3 of 26
12/23/02 at 12:37am
Well, I'm not going to drop this 8886, lol, I'd sooner die. But, it looks like it can take as much or more hits than any other lappy I've seen.... The space between the plastic outside and the screen is a lot more than most lappies, so it can definitely handle more hits to the top. The bottom has big rubber legs that can help... and there is steel framing and coverings under the keyboard and around the rest of the lappy... That gives the plastic some support while leaving the lappy looking good. I have more faith in the 8886's structural integrity than I would any other.
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post #4 of 26
12/23/02 at 1:43am
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I would think the 15.7" screen would be a big drawback to its damage resistance; what I've heard is, the larger the screen, the more likely the breakage. I'd be really cautious not to drop a Sager too, just that I'm a clumsy kinda guy.

I don't see how the steel helps, though. I'd think it would make the plastic more likely to break. Not a cushion = less time of impact
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post #5 of 26
12/23/02 at 1:52am
The plastic isn't the main thing, though... the steel protects the processor, the drives, the ram, lol, the expensive stuff... The plastic is maleable enough not to break with the steel behind it... Obviously it isn't indestructable, my point is simply that I trust it more than others (my own lappy, for example).
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post #6 of 26
12/23/02 at 2:09am
LoL my school gave me some old POS mac laptop for a trip to NexTech two years ago. I forgot to give it back so at a lan party I decided to try to use it for a snowboard. All I can say is, my Sager is built 10x better than that piece of crap, screen ripped off as soon as i jumped on it. then the rest of it fell appart. All in all it was pretty fun untill i told my Cisco teacher what I did with it lol oops. oh well...
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post #7 of 26
12/23/02 at 2:11am
lolol! That's awesome! Glad to hear you are in agreement :-)
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post #8 of 26
12/23/02 at 3:16am
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Lol. What did your teacher make you do?
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post #9 of 26
12/23/02 at 4:14am
lol well the laptop was really so old that the school had no use for it so basicly she just wrote it off lol. I though that she had given them to us because they never asked for it back but I guess that we wernt supposed to keep them lol. I don't really remember what the lappy had, it had a monotone screen, i believe just a port for an external keyboard, floppy and docking station.
Now the TI TravelMate laptops i got for free this summer, those things actually kick much more ass than that mac. Color screen 75mhz, 14.4 modem, 16 megs of ram. I'm going to turn one of them into a mail station type thing for my mom to keep in the kitchen.
Goodness its like 2 in the morning... ach..
goodnight everyone.
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post #10 of 26
12/23/02 at 4:19am
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Heh, cool. Where did you get this free laptop?

And what is your avatar supposed to be, exactly?
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post #11 of 26
12/23/02 at 12:55pm
My grandpa got them from his computer club, they used to be used by a local company but they were given away.
The avitar is of a little stick guy holding a spoon and a giant banana. Check out bitterfilms.com for more about it, its one of the funniest cartoons I have seen (although you will have to find it on Kazaa or another file sharing program, no downloads on that site) the cartoon is called Rejected.
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post #12 of 26
12/24/02 at 2:00am
Yeah, I remember a long time ago when my mom brought home our first computer, lol, it was one of the ones her work was giving away cuz they were upgrading... monotone, 5.25" floppy... DOS, and TETRIS baby yeah!
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post #13 of 26
12/24/02 at 2:02am
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Lol. Considering I'm still pretty young...when I was 5 I remember playing on a 386, although I remember an older computer that we gave away. Still had the 5" floppy drive and all. I'm at the age where people are surprised I can get around in DOS. =P

Well to get back on topic, has anyone had a dropping experience with a sager and had it survive? Details please
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post #14 of 26
12/24/02 at 2:34am
lol yea I remember being about 4 playing huck fin on our old comp, forgot what it was, but we still have the box for it lol. ANYWAY, I've never dropped the sager, but that mp3 player that comes w/ it doesnt like to be dropped. mine fell about 8 inches to my foot, and then it fell on the ground pretty gently and it locked up, wouldnt even power off. I had to yank the batterys and it worked fine.

Not to steer this topic off any more than it is, but has anyone knowticed that if you delete a few mp3's off the mp3 player and then put some new ones on that when you play some of the new songs that bits of the old (deleted) songs are played at the end of the new songs? lol, I formatted the mem card and it quit. Thought that was kinda odd.
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post #15 of 26
12/24/02 at 2:36am
Whoa... weird... Does it happen if you use the 8886's sony memory stick port as well? Or only with the mp3 player port? I'd try myself, but I don't have a card for it, lol. I guess it's to be expected that the mp3 player doesn't like getting dropped... just like a cdplayer or a hard drive, lol, same kinda things in certain ways.
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post #16 of 26
12/24/02 at 2:38am
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My stupid Rio 800 crapped out on me and the warranty's up. Oh well, 300 bucks I could have used toward a sager.

That (the whole mp3s-at-end-of-other-mp3s thing) is odd, but I wonder why Sager would include the mp3 player; they should make it optional. If someone wants an mp3 player, they probably wouldn't go for one that big (or easily damaged, apparently) as that one.
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post #17 of 26
12/24/02 at 2:39am
One that big? You think it's big? I thought it was pretty small for an mp3 player, lol...
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post #18 of 26
12/24/02 at 2:42am
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Check out the Creative Muvo. (http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5ba5/) I like the whole idea that its little thing can be used as a floppy drive.

Dang, how do you type up so many replies to all these threads so fast!? I thought I typed fast...
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post #19 of 26
12/24/02 at 2:43am
lol, I'm a quick typist, but actually right now I'm waiting for my lil bro to finish playing Timesplitters2 on our PS2 cuz I want to play :-) So I hang at the forums I moderate, lol.
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post #20 of 26
12/24/02 at 2:45am
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ForumS?? How fast do you type anyway? I think my record for 1 min is around 111 wpm.

Did you check out the muvo? Didja didja didja?
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